I did do a fast sweep of my clothes a few weeks ago when we were getting the kid packed up (damn if he didn't inherit this from me....). 4+ LARGE trash bags of clothes. And that's in 3 years since the last time.
My parents are the same way - there are just two of them living in a 3 BR house with a 2+ car garage and there is only one BR that can be slept in and the cars barely fit in the garage. They recently redid the deck and front stairs and while the construction trash bin was there my Mom did put a LOT of old boxes in it, but still......
My grandmother on my Dad's side read....a lot....she would go to garage sales and buy boxes of paperback books. There were book shelves in every room of her house that were packed as well as floor to wall book shelves in her garage that were full. When I was little I used to go through and find out how many she had of a particular book.
At least I know where I get it from.
